Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religion-"A Roman Catholic cannot be President of the United States." Proof of this statement is impossible, but many was the Republican who said: "If Smith had been a Protestant, he would have won." Democrats insisted to the end that the religious issue did not originate in their own party during the McAdoo-Smith fight for nomination in 1924, or, if it did originate then, that it was fanned to flame again by auxiliary agencies...
...Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania's Vare in 1926. In doing so the People gave to President Hoover an unmistakably clear Republican majority in both House and Senate. During the Coolidge administration, the House has always been solidly Republican, but the Senate has teetered, owing to the fact that a bare Republican majority included half a dozen insurgents who could not be relied upon to support party measures...
Phillips Lee Goldsborongh was Republican Governor in the pre-Ritchie era. Last week he defeated bumbling Senator Bruce. The Goldsborough name is one which, by some analyses of ancient Maryland society, is even more elect than the great name of Carroll. Another Goldsborough, this one a Democratic cousin of the Senator-elect, was re-elected to the House...
...Delaware, a name which has been in the U. S. Senate for a century was defeated by Republican John G. Townsend. The defeated name was Bayard,-in this generation carried notably by extremely tall Thomas Francis...
...that other small state Rhode Island, another name went down, for Peter Goelet Gerry, extremely rich and extremely active supporter of the Brown Derby failed of re-election to the Senate because Felix Hebert, a Dry Republican defeated...